35 Then God told Yacob, “Pack up and move to Beyt-el and settle there, and make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esaw.”[ref]

2 So Yacob instructed his household and everyone with him, “Remove any foreign idols that are among you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. 3 Then we’ll leave here and make the uphill trip to Beyt-el, and I’ll make an altar there to God, who answered me when I was distressed. He’s been with me wherever I’ve gone.” 4 So they gave Yacob all their idols and their earrings, and he buried them under the terebinth tree that was near Shekem.

5 Then they started their journey but and the people of the cities around them were afraid of Yacob’s God so they didn’t attack them. 6 So Yacob and everyone with him eventually arrived at Luz in the Canaan region (which is now named Beyt-el). 7 He built an altar there and named the place ‘El Beyt-el’ (which means ‘the God of Beyt-el’), because God had revealed himself to him there when he was fleeing from his brother Esaw. 8 Then Rebekah’s nurse Deborah died and was buried under the oak tree below Beyt-el so he named the place ‘Allon Bakut’ (which means ‘oak of weeping’).

9 Now that Yacob had left Paddan Aram and come back to Beyt-el, God appeared to him there again and blessed him 10 and told him, “Your name is Yacob but you won’t be called Yacob anymore. From now on, you’ll be called Yisra’el (‘Israel’).” So again[ref] God called him Yisra’el. 11 Then God also told him, “I’m God the provider. Be fruitful and multiply. Out of you will come a nation and a community of nations, and kings will come from your descendants,[ref] 12 and I’ll give you the land that I gave to Abraham and to Isaac, and in the future, I’ll give the land to your descendants after you.” 13 After God finished talking to Yacob, he left him and went back up. 14 Then Yacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had spoken with him, and he poured a drink offering over it, followed by oil,[ref] 15 and he named that place ‘Beyt-el’ (which means ‘God’s house’) because God had spoken to him there.